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VIIRS/JPSS2 Water Reservoir Monthly L3 Global V002
Listed in NASA Earthdata CMR and NASA Data Portal — shown once because both records carry DOI 10.5067/viirs/vj228c3.002
Description
The NOAA-21 Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Water Reservoir Monthly Level 3 (L3) Global (VJ228C3) Version 2 product provides current data for 151 man-made reservoirs and 13 regulated natural lakes for a total of 164 reservoirs. The VJ228C3 data product is a composite of the 8-day area classifications from VJ228C2 which is converted to provide monthly elevation and water storage.
The Lake Temperature and Evaporation Model (LTEM) with input from VIIRS Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity (VJ221A2) and meteorological data from Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) are used to produce monthly evaporation rates and volume losses. The VJ228C3 data product provides a monthly time series that consists of a single variable with information about the reservoir identifier, dam location (longitude and latitude), reservoir surface area, elevation, water storage capacity, evaporation rate, and evaporation volume.
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Known Issues
* Water occurrence images generally show smaller surface area dynamics in high latitude regions, creating pixels with low occurrence values that have relatively large uncertainties. In addition, the quality of raw water area classification can be affected by lake ice coverage typically creating an overestimation of surface area in the enhancement algorithm. This issue will be addressed in a future release of the enhancement algorithm.
For additional information about known issues, refer to Section 4 in the User Guide.
Links
Get the data
- Resource doi.org/10.5067/viirs/vj228c3.002 ↗
The LP DAAC product page provides information on Science Data Set layers and links for user guides, ATBDs, data access, tools, customer support, etc.
landing page · download · DOI / persistent id · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1767/VNP28_UserGuide_V3.pdf ↗
The technical information in the User's Guide enables users to interpret and use the data products.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource landweb.modaps.eosdis.nasa.gov ↗
The LDOPE Land Product Quality Assessment website provides known issues, maneuvers, and product quality of the land products.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource viirsland.gsfc.nasa.gov/Val/GWR_Val.html ↗
Validation at stage 1 has been achieved for the VIIRS Global Water Reservoir product suite.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- Resource viirsland.gsfc.nasa.gov/Val_overview.html ↗
Further details regarding VIIRS product validation and maturity status are available from VIIRS Land Product Quality Assessment site.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- PDF lpdaac.usgs.gov/documents/1905/VNP28_ATBD_v1.pdf ↗
The ATBD provides physical theory and mathematical procedures for the calculations used to produce the data products.
documentation · download · from NASA CMR, data nasa gov
- search.earthdata.nasa.gov /search/granules?p=C2846979837-LPCLOUD ↗
Earthdata Search allows users to search, discover, visualize, refine, and access NASA Earth Observation data.
download · from NASA CMR
- Resource earthdata.nasa.gov/centers/lp-daac ↗
The LP DAAC website provides detailed information on discovery, distribution, access, and support of land data products.
download · project · from data nasa gov, NASA CMR
- Original Metadata cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2846979837-LPCLOUD.iso19115 ↗
download · from data nasa gov
Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/viirs-jpss2-water-reservoir-monthly-l3-global-v002 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 3
- CMR UMM-JSON cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2846979837-LPCLOUD.umm_json ↗
metadata API · from NASA CMR
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=e0b043b8-7c36-4a62-bd1b-68cbcb6a4… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
- CMR record cmr.earthdata.nasa.gov/search/concepts/C2846979837-LPCLOUD.html ↗
catalogue entry · from NASA CMR
Topics
Provenance · 2 source records, 22 field assertions
| Source | Key | Last seen | Raw |
|---|---|---|---|
| NASA Earthdata CMR | C2846979837-LPCLOUD | 8 d ago | JSON v1 |
| NASA Data Portal | e0b043b8-7c36-4a62-bd1b-68cbcb6a444c | 5 d ago | JSON v1 |
| Field | Assertion | Extractor | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| access_level | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:astronomy | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:earth-environmental | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:ocean-atmospheric | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[field].local:field:physics | mapping · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[instrument].gcmd_instrument:viirs | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/land-surface/topography/terrain-elevation/bed-elevation | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/terrestrial-hydrosphere/surface-water/surface-water-features/lakes-reservoirs | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/terrestrial-hydrosphere/surface-water/surface-water-processes-measurements/total-surface-water | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[measured_variable].gcmd:earth-science/terrestrial-hydrosphere/surface-water/surface-water-processes-measurements/water-surface-height | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:image | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (65%) |
| concepts[modality].local:modality:imaging | enrichment · NASA CMR | keyword-concept-rules@1.0.0 | title+description (75%) |
| concepts[platform].gcmd_platform:noaa-21 | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| created_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| description | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/Abstract |
| license_text | source · data nasa gov | connector:data_nasa_gov@1.0.0 | |
| publication_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| spatial | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/SpatialExtent |
| temporal | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/TemporalExtents |
| title | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | /umm/EntryTitle |
| updated_date | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 | |
| version_label | source · NASA CMR | connector:nasa_cmr@1.0.0 |